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QUARTO: Two Poems by J.J. Starr
The Bikini You’re just so darn cute She tugged up the cheeks of my swimsuit shown two small pears, fleshy & bright bookending the neon green fabric—this was the 90s my first two-piece & I thought I was a big girl despite every comment about my size: petite, skinny, thread-and-thimble thin, string bean. Strangers would…
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TWO POEMS by Oliver de la Paz
Diaspora Sonnet 40 So much improvisation—the improvised way I enter a room. The way I walk market aisles: with purpose borne of worry. The tumult of cereal packages, an array of landscapes crossed over in a plane. I am flying above the patchwork of mornings and feeling dizzy. Truly I am making this up as…
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CLASP by Sophie Klahr and Corey Zeller
You were a room filled with paintings of storms in the style of Turner and each was gold— end-of-day gold; gold as you want me to be. Gold as a sweet horse in a picture book. Gold in that way, your way; Gold when it’s lost, how it seems more gold. A girl’s tooth. That…
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